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KDE 3.1 Second Beta Released

Posted by timothy on from the now-there-is-some-eyecandy dept.

desau writes "The good folks over at KDE have released the second beta of 3.1. Binary packages are available for most major distributions, save one."

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  1. It's a Beta Jackass by aufecht · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think we need a few new moderation categories:

    -2: Too damn whiney
    -3: Oh, it's you again. Why do you visit Slashdot and post comments and do nothing but bitch. Way too fucking whiney.
    -4: Just shut the fuck up will ya.
    -5: You are the biggest moron that ever lived.

    Taco? Can these be incorporated into the moderation system?

  2. How childish! by sp00nfed · · Score: 1, Insightful
    It seems to me that open source nowadays is all about screwing over each other.

    Red hat wants a unified desktop, KDE doesn't like that idea, what a bunch of crybabies. Maybe if they had put in the work to become the standard desktop for Linux everyone would be happy... but then again Gnome is pretty damn cool.

    KDE and Red hat are both playing in the open source playground, however KDE should realise they can't take their ball and go home, because of the licence they CHOSE to realise their work under.

    1. Re:How childish! by pyman · · Score: 3, Insightful
      KDE are in no way obligated to release binaries for Redhat...

      Its GPL, which means they have to provide the source if someone asks for it. In what what is KDE taking their ball and going home?

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    2. Re:How childish! by LMCBoy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not only are KDE not obligated to provide binaries for Redhat, KDE do not provide binaries for any distribution. The distributions provide their own binaries.

      Redhat chose not to provide binaries for 3.1 beta2. So who exactly is being childish here? Certainly not KDE, and probably not even Redhat. I'd say it's you.

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  3. Slashdot moderation by 0x0d0a · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It'd be kind of interesting to support a couple of new tags.

    I'd like to see as negatives:

    * Factually Inaccurate (people mark incorrect things as "Troll" or "Overrated" currently...just silly.

    I'd like to see the "Offtopic" removed as a negative Slashdot moderation. I think that a lot of good conversation threads "spin off" the main thread, and that people unfortunately often get modded as "Offtopic" for material that is quite useful and refreshing.

    I also think that there's a reasonable argument that "Overrated" should go. That's really what M2 is for, and having an M2-proof M1 sort of defeats the whole purpose of M2.

    and as for good posts, I think that Insightful/Informative/Interesting are overly similar. They get used interchangeably. Perhaps better would be:

    Remove Insightful, Informative, and Interesting. They're redundant.

    Underrated should go for the same reason that Overrated should.

    The following could be added:

    * New Information (for posts that introduce additional facts to a story, like "I worked as an engineer at the company and...")
    * Interesting. Merge of Insightful/Interesting, as the two are not distinguished between by any moderators that I've seen.
    * Well-written. It would be nice to encourage good syntax on Slashdot. That's one nice thing about kuro5hin -- most users write like professional journalists. Also, there are some really nice things that people make -- relevant haikus, clever bits of story, and the occasional brilliant manifesto -- which really deserve a moderation category of their own.

    Thoughts, anyone?

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